It was getting time to turn in for the night and Roberto had gotten the okay to sleep with Bobby in our room. Since we were all guys we totally stayed up past curfew, "If you guys don't mind me asking, what were your tests?" I asked the three of them since they were already on the team
They looked between each other, "Evan and I didn't have to take the test since we're first generation X-men dude, we were here when the school first formed. You, Roberto, and a few others are second generation, the first recruits." I noticed how Bobby already considered me part of the X-men, it really meant alot to me
Roberto gave me a smile, "Can't tell you amigo," he said rolling his tongue, "Danger room experience is X-men onl, and since you aren't officially one I can not tell you." I wasn't really that worried but it would have been nice to know what I was facing beforehand, "But I can tell you this, the Professor bases the training primarily on what he thinks your levels is,"
"Level?"
Bobby jumped on my bed and held up a finger, "Well it goes like this, there are three classes of mutant in the world. Alpha, Beta, and Omega with Omega being the highest surprisingly. Beta level mutants usually have physical mutations that don't extend much beyond that, Evan creates spikes from his bones and can create armor which places him as a Beta. Alpha level mutants are leagues above Beta as they mostly deal in manipulation of sorts, such as fire and ice, water, even shadow but what makes them an Alpha is the limits their power has. Take Roberto for example, he can absorb energy from the sun to power himself up but that's it. He can't command fire or move the sun or play out in the rain-,"
"Shut the fuck up Bobby!"
Bobby laughed and dodged the pillow Roberto chucked at him, "Point is that Alpha mutants are powerful but still have limits."
It didn't take long to guess what an Omega was, "I'm getting that Omega mutants don't have limitations,"
Bobby nodded and flashed his white teeth, "Yup, actually I think you might be an Omega level mutant. Omega level mutants have zero limitations on their powers, if Alpha's were the Earth then Omega's are at the center of the universe. There used to be only two Omega's at the school but now there's three." He slapped a hand on my thigh, "It's a good thing Omega's only make up about 3% of the mutant population or the government would definitely hunt us down." I sat back on the bed a thought of what Bobby said to me. I was the strongest class of mutant there was, I stopped to wonder what Logan was and it was then I remembered I had no idea what his power was.
"What's Logan?"
Bobby and Roberto raised an eyebrow, Evan had gone to sleep in his girlfriend's room long ago, "Wolverine?"
I nodded, Wolverine, I had to say the name for him for some reason.
We heard a knock at the door and a rather attractive guy, probably could've been a model, with Red glasses poked his head in, "What part of light's out did you not understand?" He didn't really sound disappointed, more like he was used to Bobby's antics.
Bobby gave a rather dramatic sigh, "All right, all right, I'm going, such a killjoy, Scott." He got into bed with Roberto who just laughed
Scott turned his attentions to me, "You're the one Logan saved right?"
I gave a half shrug before nodding, "Saved is kinda ambiguous I mean it wasn't like I was gonna die or anything." I do have a healing factor of plus 10 so it wouldn't have been a big deal
Scott came fully in the room now, I could see the perfectly sculpted lean smooth chest and those low riding pajama bottoms.
I am going to love it here
'Oi, keep it in your pants missy,'
I narrowed my eyes at the intruding voice in my thoughts, 'Is this mind peeping going to be a thing with you?' Jean didn't sound mad, actually she sounded amused more than anything else
'It does when it concerns my man,'
Well there is that thing about straight guys, then again I have fucked a lot of straight guys in my line of work, married straight guys at that.
'You go anywhere near my Scott and I will scramble your brains so bad you'll forget that you forgot your past.'
I smacked my teeth, 'Don't worry, he's not really my type,'
'And I guess Wolverine is?'
'Shutting you off now,' the shroud went up again and I realized that Scott was actually talking to me
"...And I'd just like to say that you give it your all tomorrow in the Danger room." That smile looked better on a rugged face with stubble
I nodded in appreciation as I could feel welcoming vibes coming from him, "Thank you, I was just wondering why you're wearing sunglasses inside and at night."
"Oh well my power is that I can shoot concentrated beams of energy through my eyes except I can't control them so I have to wear these glasses or my uniform if I want to see."
I wondered what his eyes were like, were they blue, green, yellow with pink flecks?
"Make sure to get a good rest," he turned off the lights to the room bathing it in darkness and making me feel more comfortable
I had started to feel myself sleeping, hopefully to more wet dreams of Logan, when I heard a rustle coming from Bobby's bed.
"Dude just do it," Bobby was really bad at whispering
"I told you no! It was one thing when you were doing it to me but I'm not doing it to you! Especially not with Clark in the room."
"Ugh asshole,"
Guess I didn't need to ask about Bobby's orientation anymore.
The training session was starting to get more brutal. The Mister wanted all of us to master our powers soon because he warned of an impending evil on the horizon.
I doubt that we could have faced this evil because for better or worse we all hated one another. Well I would not say that, most of tended to chose a friend apart from Nihilism who wished to stay by himself.
And they dare call me Loneliness
Only reason I wasn't alone was because of him, the Mister had brought us in together and we stayed together.
He was really all I had and all I knew
My real brother
I woke with a start to someone shaking me awake.
It was Logan
He gave me a bored look but I could detect a hint of worry, "You okay, kid?"
I nodded while looking around frantically finding my sword on the opposite end of the room, "Yeah I just normally wake up in a sweat and not because my dreams are looking an awful lot like memories," I didn't mean to be rude but finding out my blood brother might be out with some Mister was a little startling
"No shit, you too huh?"
I scoffed at him, "You actually sound proud of yours," I remembered that he was the other person Xavier was looking at about his memory loss.
"At least mine got me my own room, nothin like everyone thinkin you're a sleepin serial killer." I got that he sometimes woke up violent
I rolled my eyes, "Who's head do I have to chop off to get my own room," Honestly I don't think I actually want my own room, I liked sharing with the guys, "Anyway is there any particular reason you've come to visit me this morning?"
"Your danger room session is in a few minutes, you gotta shower and dress up and I'm supposed to take you there."
Logan in the bathroom with me? Lovely
But in all seriousness Logan looked the type to love fucking women and beat up 'Nancy boys,'
I don't want Wolverine to dislike me
I looked over and saw that Bobby and Roberto were snoring and sleeping away from each other. Their relationship was unclear but I doubt they were dating.
I followed Wolverine down the dimly lit hallway, the sun barely shining through the windows, towards the elevator. We stepped inside and he pressed the last button on the keypad, a giant X covering it.
"Headquarters is on the basement level of the school." The doors opened to a futuristic type hallway, gleaning silver everywhere. Logan led him down the hallway but stopped in front of a door on the left, "Locker room," there huge lockers all around and I could see a open bathroom towards the back.
Logan unlocked a locker and pulled out what was probably the most atrocious and bulky black jumpsuit I had ever seen.
"This is what you'll wear during the test, you can only choose your outfit if you become an X-man," Wolverine added once seeing my protest at wearing a jumpsuit
I snatched it with a grumble, "Fine,"
I stopped walking into the shower when I noticed a second set of footsteps, I raised an eyebrow at Wolverine, "You gonna get my back?"
Logan smirked, "You ain't got nothin I ain't seen before,"
"Privacy?"
Wolverine put his hands up in surrender before stepping out of the shower area which was a good thing since I would have trouble explaining my problem.
After squeezing into that stupid jumpsuit I followed Wolverine into what I believed to be the control room of the Danger room. The Prof, Jean, Scott, and a black woman with shocking white hair were already there.
"Ah Clark, I can honestly say I can't wait for your test today. I've designed especially for you, I would also like you to meet Ororo Monroe, or Storm as most like to call her."
I shook Storm's hand feeling a tingle of electricity as I did so
"Your test," Jean spoke up, "Is to free the captured people from multiple points in the holographic city. There's a group called the purifiers who'll try and stop you but you must rescue everyone."
Rescue mission, got it, nothing wrong with that
I was directed to the actual inside of the danger room and was left alone as the simulation of a destroyed city took place.
I sat down cross legged on the ground
Jean looked at Clark confused, "What is he doing?" Not five minutes in and it looked like her friend had given up.
Logan shrugged while Scott chuckled and Storm stayed ever silent.
I closed my eyes and felt the shadows dance on the ground, my own shadow extended outwards reaching the edges of the simulation.
I could tell where everyone was now, the groupings of people were most likely the ones I needed to rescue, while the ones spread out were the equalizers.
An Idea came to mind, there were seven groups of people needing to be rescued so why not seven me's?
I didn't have to form a cross hand sign with my fingers but I chose to anyway, "Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" There were no puffs of smoke but several shadow versions of myself did appear
Scott whistled, "He's obviously had some practice in controlling his powers if he can create shadow clones of himself."
"His quick thinking allowed him to find the position of his targets without revealing himself and without moving a muscle." Storm commended
Xavier simply watched
"You know the drill," My clones nodded, everything they learned I would learn when I released them. They even had a small degree of shadow manipulation on their own but not to my level. In a sense I could create my own army with these things.
We launched off the ground in our separate directions. I landed on the rooftop and jumped across the others as I headed towards my target. I could easily teleport there but there were enemies on the roofs as well.
These purifier goons weren't much apart from their electric batons. My powers spasmed as they ached to be used, to kill, to shred. But I reigned them in and instead took control of their shadows halting their movement.
I ran past them and repeated the process on the other purifiers I found.
"I'm surprised he hasn't attacked them yet," Wolverine admired, "Went a lot different durin mine,"
"It wastes time needlessly attacking the enemy when you have people to save." Xavier answered, Clark was a remarkable mutant indeed. When he was inside the boys mind he noticed that his powers seemed to have a mind of their own, they took the duty of protecting him but had homicidal tendencies.
He wondered how Clark would do against the Sentinel
I had already rescued the simulated people, their simulations thanking me profusely. Suddenly memories of rescuing the others started to appear in my head. My clones had successfully done their job and I released their shadows.
The simulations disappeared and I wondered if my test was over. The ground beneath my feet shook with a great rumble, I could guess what was coming next for I had seen them on the telly in shops. My shadow teleported me to the highest ruined building to get a better vantage point.
There stood the sentinel, the giant anti mutant robot that's supposed to oppress my people.
I stuck out a hand as the Sentinel noticed me, six dark portals, three on either side appeared behind the sentinel.
"Hekatonkheires," I invoked
Six heavily muscled shadow arms shot out of the portal and each arm grabbed an appendage of the sentinel. I barely moved a muscle as the sentinel was ripped apart, once the shadow creatures job was finished it went back to its own world.
And I wasn't even the least bit tired
Applause sound from over the speakers.
Bobby and Roberto looked ecstatic to hear the verdict, "So how did it go, Clark?"
I shook my head, "Don't call me Clark, the names Kage," I gave them both a grin and they shouted with excitement